Chapter 19! Ok so I think I have figured out how much longer I want this story. This is chapter 19... finishing up with all the Victor and Karen Drama. It's short and sweet because I am not going to have time to write it tomorrow... plus it's to the point... Not one of my best chapters I have to admit but I was getting tried of Victor and wanted him GONE! hahaha The next chapter or 2 will be Brucas back to its normal self, dealing with everyday stuff... Little things that might need to be said for the sequel and then Chapter 22 will be closing up mostly. Chapter 23 will be the last Chapter taking place at Brooke's birthday party. So that's 4 more chapters. Then I will start on the sequel called "Over-rated" and yes it is a Gavin song LOL! I had to continue my tradition of naming them after his songs. Anyway so that is a time-line...
Questions: I have had a few questions in my reviews over the past couple of chapters so I thought I would take a second to answer those.
Q: How old am I?
A: I am 15! 16 on January 19
Q: How did I come up with this?
A: I have NO idea LOL!
Q: How do I have so much time to write?
A1: I am home schooled so it's a grade
A2. I have a really broken ankle and have had it since June...
Brooke grabbed Austin and got out of the restaurant as fast as she could. Tears were burning behind her eyes and she was getting that uneasy feeling in her throat. She was not going to let Karen see her cry... that was the last thing this whole situation needed, Karen thinking Brooke was some fragile emotionally scared girl who couldn't take care of her family.
Once she got out to the car the tears had pretty much stopped but now the anger was kicking in. Who was Karen to judge her for being a teenage mother? She blamed Brooke for Lucas's mistakes, and sure... Brooke had defiantly brought the sex issue up on their first date. But it was Lucas who followed through with it. As he had told her hundreds of times, he could have said no. Austin was now whining from being hungry since he hadn't exactly gotten a chance to eat.
"It's ok Austin... Mommy is taking you to McDonalds. You like McDonalds don't you?" Brooke asked wiping one last tear from her cheek trying to smile for her little boy.
"Brooke wait! I don't have a car or Nick's car seat" Karen yelled after her
"Who's the bad mother now?"
Lucas sat with Emma on the floor during story time. He was bored out of his mind, and Emma looked like she was too. She was laid back in Lucas's lap falling in and out of a light sleep no paying any attention to the story or Ms. Ashton.
"Hey Emmy..." Lucas whispered
"What?"
"You wanna ditch story time and go to the park?"
"And goes to the park?" Emma asked opening her sleepy eyes
"Yea..."
"You carrys me?"
"Of course..." Lucas laughed
"Okay" Emma giggled grabbing around Lucas's neck
"Lets go"
"Will we's gets in trouble?" Emma asked looking worried
"Watch and learn"
"Lucas, Emmalyne... you two aren't leaving are you? We haven't done Music yet" Ms. Ashton said stopping the story
"Um, no... bathroom break" Lucas lied. Singing was defiantly his cue to leave.
"Oh, ok then, Hurry now or you may miss the rest of the story"
Lucas walked out casually with Emma until they reached the hall and were safe from any more singing or story telling. That place was defiantly any dad's hell on earth.
"We dids it" Emma giggled
"Did you doubt me? I told you I would get us out, where too Princess?"
"We can goes play basetballs"
"Emmy... You hate basketball" Lucas laughed
"Yous can play! I will be is a Cheerleader"
"Sounds good...Ice cream first?" Lucas asked pulling her up onto his shoulders
"Yea"
Lucas and Emma were1/2 way out to his car when his cell phone rang.
"Hello?"
"Lucas... It's mom" Karen said frantically
"Hey... Is Brooke there? I was just getting ready to call her. Emma and I ditched School" Lucas laughed
"No... Lucas we need to talk now" Karen said coldly. Lucas hadn't heard her in this tone since she had caught him and Brooke in the pool the night they moved in.
"Why what's wrong?"
"Brooke is crazy" Karen laughed
"What?"
"Yes! We were talking today at Lunch and she just lost it and told me to go to hell"
"Really?" Lucas asked rolling his eyes at Emma.
"What you don't believe me?"
"I believe you... its just usually Brooke has a good reason for telling someone to go to hell... what did you say to her?" Lucas asked laughing
"This isn't funny Lucas! I was just asking her about the kids, and how her life is"
"You didn't try and tell her to do anything different with the kids did you?"
"No... I was just asking little things like how she felt when she had the kids... I will tell you the whole story when we meet to talk" Karen cried
"Mom... Brooke is just stressed"
"What? You are taking her side?" Karen's voice was now so high pitched that he was sure only dogs could understand her
"I don't know her side... Let me call her"
"She forgot her phone... please come pick us up. She took the car and left us" Karen lied knowing good and well Brooke had her phone
"Damn, you must have really pissed her off Mom"
"I think something is wrong with that girl" Karen snorted
"Where are you?"
"Chili's"
"We'll be there in 10 minutes... swear to me you will be calmer when I get there" Lucas begged.
"Why should I be calm?"
"Because Emma is with me and if you say anything around her to make her think differently of Brooke I will leave you there just like she did" Lucas said very seriously. He didn't really care what Karen thought of Brooke, or who she complained about her too, but she was not going to undermine her to Emma or Austin.
"Maybe she needs to know"
"Have fun walking mom"
"I'll be calmer" Karen swore
"Then I'll be there soon... bye"
"Was is that Mommy?"
"Nope... Meme, come on we have to make a pit stop"
Brooke drove into the hospital parking lot and slammed her car door as she got out, totally forgetting about Austin, until she was 3 cars over.
"Sorry Honey... Mommy has got to go kick some serious ass" Brooke apologized as she pulled Austin out of his seat. Unlike Emma who would have screamed and cried at the thought of Brooke leaving her alone, it didn't seem to bother Austin. He just giggled and talked baby talk to Brooke as they walked across the parking lot.
It made her madder and madder every time she looked at Austin that someone could think that she didn't give a damn about him. After everything she had gone through to have him and Emma and to keep them should have been proof enough for Karen, but no... she had an explanation for that too. Money...that was the thing Brooke didn't give a damn about.
It seemed like it had taken forever but Brooke finally got through the lobby to Victors fathers room, where just as she thought he was sitting in the recliner reading and smacking on his gum.
"Hey... Get your sorry ass out here" Brooke whispered glaring at him from the doorway.
"Brooke... so nice to see you, oh you brought the kid" Victor snorted
"Yes.... Now I want you to take this kid and hold him for a second" Brooke said handing Austin over to him
"What the hell?"
"Look at that little boy in the eyes and you tell him exactly why his mother isn't going to be there for him after you talk her husband and everyone else who will listen into believing she doesn't love him. You tell him Victor" Brooke yelled
"Brooke this is stupid"
"Well, since apparently I am not going to be here to do it"
"Look Kid... You were a mistake, Happy?" Victor said patting Austin on the head
"His name is Austin and you didn't tell him"
"Austin... Your mother was a slut and now she is coming away with me... deal with it" Victor laughed
"Nice people skills..."
"Fine... You want me to tell him how it really is? Your mother is a selfish conceded bitch who lives in a fake world with her husband and children pretending to be happy and care free when really she hates you all and is screaming to get out and live the life she once had" Victor said handing Austin back to Brooke
"Now let me tell you how it really is. Yes... I am a selfish conceded bitch... that is why you should be very afraid. But it's you who is living in the fake world Victor. Somehow you have it in your brain that my husband and children thorns in my side... and you act like you know what it is like. But the truth is you will never know what it is like to love someone the way I love them. To go from always being first to making sure they always come first... no matter what. And one day when you are old and dying alone... just like your father is, you just remember that I told you so. I suggest you take your home wrecking ways else where or my husband is going to kick your ass... got it?"
"I am so scared... Skinny little Lucas is going to kick me to the curb"
"I can make your life hell Victor... ask Lucas" Brooke smiled
"Fine Brooke... You want me to leave you alone? I could have given you everything...but if you want it this way then ok. But you remember what you think you have with Lucas is an illusion. One of these days he is going to meet a girl that is better than you, and he is going to realize that his life is with her, not you and he is going to kick you to the curb and become a weekend daddy to those kids. You wait Brooke, and then you remember that I told you so" Victor smiled walking back into his fathers room
Lucas and Emma drove into the Chili's parking lot where Karen was waiting with a police officer. This was just like Karen... blowing things way out of proportion, Making sure everything went her way or else.
"What the hell mom?" Lucas asked seeing the officer
"Is this your mother? We understand that your son was kidnapped" The officer said shaking Lucas's hand
"No...My son is with my wife"
"Lucas! You know she probably ran off and is never coming back! She is crazy" Karen yelled
"Officer could I talk to you for a minute?" Lucas asked pulling the officer to the side
"My mother... she isn't well. Just 3 weeks go she tried to tell me that my daughter Emma here was turning into a fish... gills and everything" Lucas laughed
"I see... she did seem a little bit manic. You're sure your son is with your wife?"
"Yes..."
"Ok then, is there anything I can do? I am sorry to have worried you..." The officer apoligized
"Wait... actually could you do me a favor while I talk to my mom?"
"Sure"
"Could you hold onto her for a second... I don't want her to hear this" Lucas asked handing him Emma
"Sure... No problem, some on sweetheart, do you want to see my police car?"
"Cans I sit in the backs like Laney did?" Emma asked waving bye to Lucas
"Mom! What the hell is your problem! You can't send the police after Brooke!" Lucas yelled after the officer was out or earshot
"I can and I will"
"Mom"
"She is cheating on you Lucas!" Karen yelled covering Nick's ears
"What?"
"Yes! With some guy named Victor! I saw them... and she is planning to take all the money in exchange for the kids"
"And where did you hear this?" Lucas asked. His mother was really going crazy, or she just really wanted the drama.
"Victor called me... he thought I knew! Lucas, I know this is hard but you have to admit you have always known"
"You saw them?"
"Well not so much saw them as heard about them" Karen said quietly
"And you asked Brooke? What did she say?"
"She tried to deny it of course!" Karen yelled
"Mother! I swear! Victor...That man is obsessed with Brooke... she is not cheating on me! What the hell did you say to her?"
"I gave her a piece of my mind Lucas! I did it for you!" Karen said hugging Lucas
"And I hope to god she did more then give you a peace of hers!"
"What? You mean to tell me you're on her side! Like you said you haven't even heard it yet!"
"I don't need too! When I married her I swore to trust her and I do" Lucas said in disbelief. Leave it to his mother to destroy everything he had worked so hard for
"So you would really choose her over me?"
"I just did"
"Lucas! Listen to me" Karen begged
"No you listen to me mom! Do you know what it took for me to get her to trust me again? Then to make her trust herself again? Leave... Don't call, don't visit, and don't write. The only way I am going to save my marriage is if you aren't involved in it"
"Lucas, I love you please don't do this" Karen begged
"I love you too mom, but Brooke comes first. She has too, She needs me more than you do and, I need her more than I need you now, I'm sorry. Now please just go home"
Brooke carried Austin back to the car feeling totally happy with herself. That should take care of Victor and if it didn't then that was one determined, sick man and she would just send Lucas after him. That is after she un-did everything Karen had probably put into his brain about her and Victor and the kids.
"Hell yea Austin! That is how mommy kicks ass! That is excellent!" Brooke giggled
"Now to celebrate, well I should probably feed you first... McDonalds or Chick-fil-a?"
"Fil-a"
"That works babe, you have a very kick ass mother... You know that? Wait... is that his car?" Brooke asked stopping at the BMW with the license plate reading "Da-man"
"Ok Austin... lesson number one, how to key a car. Oops" Brooke laughed swiping her house key against the car as Austin giggled
"You think that's funny? Wait until you hear the noise his tires make as all the air, flows out of them"
Lucas walked over to Emma and the officer where Emma was playing with his walky-talky. Obviously neither of them had heard what was going on across the parking lot since they were both laughing and talking.
"Hey Princess"
"Daddy... watch!" Emma shrieked as she pressed a button that made a high pitch sound come out of the microphone
"Wow..." Lucas laughed covering his ears
"Everything taken care with your mother?"
"Yea thanks...A Cab is coming to get her and take her home"
"Good... Emma it was good to talk to a fellow Joey/Dawson fan...you go out and fight the good fight, you hear me" The officer laughed
"Yes" Emma smiled
"Good... you have a good day sir" The officer smiled handing Emma to Lucas
"Thank you again"
"No problem"
"Emmy, lets go find Mommy" Lucas said putting her back up onto his shoulders
"Where is Meme?"
"She is going on a little vacation" Lucas said quietly. It was defiantly going to be hard without his mother; after all she was his mother and someone who had been in his life for the past 20 years. But he knew it would be harder without Brooke.
Lucas was already home playing in the backyard with Emma when Brooke drove into the driveway. For he first time in a long time she was nervous about talking to Lucas. For the first time she wasn't quite sure what he was going to say to her or what Karen had said to him. But when she got out of the car and carried Austin to the back yard to meet them just the sight of him and Emma eased the butterflies a little.
"Hey" She said quietly as she put Austin down to play with Emma
"Hey"
"So, I had a pretty interesting day"
"Same here...long" Lucas smiled
"Yea..."
"Did you talk to Karen?" Brooke asked nervously. She was really, really hoping he hadn't.
"We had a nice little chat" Lucas laughed
"Lucas you know that none of"
"Brooke... come here" Lucas smiled grabbing her tight into a hug
"I love you Luke"
"I love you too" Lucas said kissing her
"I'm sorry"
"For what?"
"Yea, there is a chance that you might have to kick Victor's ass... just a little chance though" Brooke giggled
"Yea, so about him..."
"He's gone... I swear and if he isn't" Brooke started
"We'll deal with it then"
"You're in a very good mood for someone who just dealt with that you dealt with"
"I'm good like that" Lucas laughed sitting down on the picnic table
"Yes you are... what now?"
"Well I say we eat dinner, put the kids to bed and then I'm all yours"
"Oh, to do with whatever I please?" Brooke giggled sitting down in his lap
"Yep"
"Nice... what about my dad"
"That nurse woman is staying the night" Lucas smiled
"You think of everything done you?"
"Hell yea, like I said"
"You're good like that... Yes I know" Brooke giggled
"And you know what else I did?"
"What Broody?" Brooke asked kissing him
"I cleaned out the pool"
"Ok... Yea, Emma Austin bedtime" Brooke yelled towards the sandbox
"Brooke... its 7:45"
"Shh! They don't know that!"
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